S. 1640
119th Congress
Senate
Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase support for physicians and other practitioners in adjusting to Medicare payment changes.
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2 steps
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In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 7, 2025
Introduced in Senate
May 7, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Plain-English summary
Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025
This bill increases certain payment adjustments under the Medicare physician fee schedule for services furnished between June 1, 2025, and January 1, 2026.
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Bill text
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Committees of jurisdiction
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Lobbying activity
75
- AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS
- CONGRESS OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS
- AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY
- THE MCMANUS GROUP
- SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Education, Dept of
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
Cosponsors
1
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1640: Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1640/
"S. 1640: Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1640/.
S. 1640, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1640/.
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